Jewish Attorney Stricken From Republican Ballot

May 2, 2014

A Jewish Republican candidate for governor who had been a long shot to challenge the incumbent of his own party will in fact not be able to run, the State Supreme Court ruled May 1.

The court overturned a lower court’s ruling that allowed Robert Guzzardi to stay on the ballot in the Republican primary against Gov. Tom Corbett, despite his failure to file a statement of financial interests by the deadline with the State Ethics Commission.

The 69-year-old Jewish lawyer and businessman from Ardmore had entered the race, he said, to apply pressure on Corbett from the right and acknowledged that he did not have a chance of actually wining.